With a new baby, a new product launch months away and a funding round in the works, MapD’s Todd Mostak has been a busy man. The company’s 32-year old co-founder and CEO won our first Early Stage Challenge last year with an idea that has caused a sensation in the GPU community. He and his… Read More

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We’re working to connect the world’s brightest minds with GPU technology that can help solve some of the world’s biggest research problems. That’s why we’ve launched our 15th annual Graduate Fellowship Program. We’re looking for students doing outstanding GPU-based research. Our goal: Provide them with grants and technical support so they can achieve breakthroughs, some… Read More

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The tech industry has been ignited by three game-changing developments: The resurgence of artificial intelligence based on machine learning. The revolutionary experience of virtual reality. And the promise of cars that drive themselves. Three massive developments, one common denominator. NVIDIA GPU-based platforms are the driving force behind these mega-trends. The GPU Technology Conference is the… Read More

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Construction zones can appear chaotic. Workers using bulldozers, diggers, and other oversized vehicles swarm a site with the aim to blow up, tear down or build something or other. Tracking what’s going on isn’t just an accounting problem. It’s a safety issue. Kespry Labs, a Silicon Valley startup, builds commercial-grade drone systems designed to address… Read More

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Construction zones can appear chaotic. Workers using bulldozers, diggers, and other oversized vehicles swarm a site with the aim to blow up, tear down or build something or other. Tracking what’s going on isn’t just an accounting problem. It’s a safety issue. Kespry Labs, a Silicon Valley startup, builds commercial-grade drone systems designed to address… Read More

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Our latest driver release gets you Game Ready for the launches of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate and Overwatch beta.

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Our NVIDIA SHIELD just won Popular Science’s 2015 “Best of What’s New” award in the entertainment category. It’s the only media streaming device to win an award. Adding to praise from consumers, gamers and journalists, this latest honor from Popular Science follows its editors’ search among thousands for the year’s top 100 tech innovations. These… Read More

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Fans have asked for it, so we’re bringing back the ultimate tablet for gamers — at a great new price of $199. And, it’s just in time for the holidays. SHIELD tablet K1 is a high-performance Android tablet that transforms into an amazing gaming machine with the SHIELD controller and top-rated games. The tablet features a… Read More

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The $199 SHIELD tablet K1 brings with it more ways to game than any other tablet on the market. Whether you favor touch gameplay, or pair an optional SHIELD controller, you’ll have advanced gaming in a mobile form factor. Native Android gaming features a wide range of titles, from hit games and top franchises to… Read More

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Titan, the U.S.’s most powerful supercomputer, now holds the title of largest GPU-accelerated visualization system in the world.

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Supercomputing has swept rapidly from the far edges of science to the heart of our everyday lives. And propelling it forward – bringing it into the mobile phone already in your pocket and the car in your driveway – is GPU acceleration, NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang told a packed house at a rollicking event kicking… Read More

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Solar energy. Semiconductor design. Electric cars. Researchers working to make advances in these fields often need to study the behavior of materials at the atomic level, which demands complex computer simulations. Among the most popular applications for these simulations is VASP – which models the behavior of, and interactions among, hundreds of individual atoms at… Read More

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As the world of supercomputing gathers for its biggest event of the year this week in Austin, Texas, NVIDIA will be at the center of it – with a talk by our CEO, presentations by international researchers and demonstrations of the latest technology. Starting tomorrow, we’ll describe our vision for just what’s possible today in… Read More

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Mutations. Infectious particles. Cell invasions. This isn’t a zombie movie. It’s daily life for a retrovirus. The shape-shifting of viruses is a big part of why they’re a global threat to human health. They go through a multistage process to produce infections, making them hard to analyze and treat. Until now. University of Illinois researchers… Read More

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NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV is constantly benefiting from new apps and games — and a bumper crop is getting served up in November. SHIELD owners will be kept busy with major services like HBO GO and STARZ Play, as well as games like Minecraft: Story Mode: Episodes 1 and 2 and The Vanishing of Ethan Carter Redux. Watch More The NVIDIA… Read More

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